A Falling of Law Book

I was excited at the beginning of this book - particularly since I'm going to Inverness next week! - but found it to be a bit of an odd mixture of on-the-nose plot (it's a classic feel good story in many ways, with a horrid sexist villain who is overcome and everything) and experimental, stream-of-consciousness writing. When it is good, it is very good:

"Because of us, things came together. Everything was possible.
I had not known, before us, that every vein in my body was capable of carrying light, like a river seen from a train makes a channel of sky etch itself deep into a landscape. I had not really known I could be so much more than myself. I had not known another body could do this to me."

I am excited to read more Ali Smith, for more passages like this one, but the ratio was off here, and it slowed me down. When characters in the book are commenting on how shocked they are with how well everything is going at the ending, it is a sign that things have gone too well.